"1. It's more convenient: you don't need extra hardware cluttering your desk. 2. You can use them to power external hardware, like USB HDs or CD/DVD/BD burners (most of them need 2 USBs plugged, one for data and another one for power. But I admit it, 8 ports are really too many. I'd be happy with just 4 USB3 ports."
- gerlos
"I love Owncloud too, and hope that it could become as widespread as email or wordpress hosting. I've installed it on my old file server and was great. Since I installed packages from debian repos, it was easy, or at least, not more difficult than setup your self hosted blog. But sync was slow: my server cpu (a 500 MHz AMD Geode) wasn't fast enough :-( Maybe a raspberry pi would be better for this project."
- gerlos